Final Blogging Assesment Post

In the very, very fantastic book, Cirque Du Freak, there are a ton of evil and good characters. I really love how Darren Shan, the author, mixes the characters up. For example at the start of the book the main character Darren is a normal teenager who likes sports, goes to school, and is annoyed by his younger sister. Darren also has a huge fond of comic books and is really intrested in vampires, warewolfs, things like that. Darren's best friend Steve, gets tickets to this 'Freak Show' and Darren is chosen to come with him. To inform you Freak Shows are not legal and you can be in a lot of trouble, going to jail, for being at them or participating in them. But this show wasn't like normal ones where there are people who can put swords in their mouth and can breath fire, no this show was different entirely! There are meant to be real warewolfs, dancing spiders, and a boy with snake skin! I don't know what happens yet becuase I haven't gotten to that part yet. But man, I can't wait to read on and see what actually happens during the show and if Darren or Steve get to actually talk to one of the performers!

The authors voice is very like himself becuase he actually has himself as the main character! The diction in this book is very smooth at one point and then gets rough meaning that he has different voices at different parts in the book. In this quote,"Little did I know that Alan's mysterious piece of paper was to change my life forever. For the worse!" (Shan 10) the author uses this quote to hook the reader on with a smooth starting and them a high, rough ending to the sentence. The syntax of the book is very different like his voice. Darren uses very long sentences with not that much detail in them and then the next sentence will be very short and might have the most important line in the chapter.